What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of depar...ture which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expect...ed no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature wo...rks. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditi...ons have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient... accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »